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Honchos, a follow up question. KinjiGC please feel free to comment as well. :-D

In my last attempt I exhausted all 4 GMAT prep mocks. My next attempt, hopefully the last, is on 9th December. I want to ace my ace my verbal score which I am succeeding at. Last time in my mocks my verbal scores were fluctuating, which now I believe was due to not following proper strategies. Further as mentioned earlier I get drained during the verbal session as well. Last time during the real thing, I felt that I messed up in quant (because I was extra ordinarily ahead of time and the last few questions were very easy that I didn't need the scratch pad) and ended up messing in verbal. I got the same old 47 I used to get in my gmat prep mocks in quant and my verbal score slipped from 37 to 31.

I drained my 4 gmat prep mocks and I remember very gmat prep mock answer as soon as I look at the question. I need to practice some mocks while trying to conserve energy for verbal and while applying my strategies for each question in the verbal section. I am planning to take a MGMAT mock from tomorrow every alternate day.

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Repeat one mock 2-3 times. Total 4 X 3 =12

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Ah KinjiGC that's very unfortunate. You must have left the passport remain there. You shouldn't have left the anxiety get the better of you especially when your time was about to get out. I can understand your pain. :oops: I'm out of words! :roll:

But KinjiGC I notice that you have posted a great score under your name here. :-D Are you sure you want to give a retake just for the sake of IR? Most programs are not considering the IR score much still. You might want to deeply reconsider your decision. Hope you wrote to your school and spoke to a few consultants!

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By the time I got up the IR time was over and the IR section got submitted. I think I got a heavy penalty. I got a 3 in IR. I was so frustrated that I decided to take GMAT again.

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I didn't know I will get 760 when I screwed up my IR. I am more than satisfied with VA 44. I am sure I will not be to duplicate the score again. :(

I will suggest you to retake the GMATPrep questions and understand the correct reasons why the wrong options are wrong. Two reasons:
1) Anybody will want to see that 770/780 in the mock. My last mocks were GMATPrep 1 (retake) - 770 , GMATPrep 3 (retake) - 780 and GMATPrep 4 (fresh) - 770. In GMATPrep 4, I got some 3-4 known questions BTW.
2) You will get to know difficult questions. There is a huge difference between solving one by one difficult questions and solving them in the mock setup. GMATprep should be your back bone of your preparation and other resources you need to add things around it.
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Repeat one mock 2-3 times. Total 4 X 3 =12

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Woah! I didn't know that. I'll surely re take the mocks! :-D
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Hi KinjiGC. See my thoughts inline! :-D

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I didn't know I will get 760 when I screwed up my IR. I am more than satisfied with VA 44. I am sure I will not be to duplicate the score again. :( Yes, please do rethink. Try to strengthen other aspects of your application. I'd attended a MBA fair in Bangalore and Shaw O'Conor of Status prep spoke for an hour or something. I was hanging around for some time after his session. A guy had got 0 in IR and scored a 700+. Shawn told him not to retake and to not even mention why he got a low score on his optional essays. He said that since schools accept scores which are upto 5 years old, a good % of the applicants will not have an IR score and that schools don't look much at the IR score. Have you taken the GMAT before? Do you have a good IR score in that one? Even if you don't remember schools know that IR is a combo of the quant session and the verbal session. You've demonstrated you are good in both. I think you must dig a grave for gmat. But I'm no expert. Seek expert advice :)

I will suggest you to retake the GMATPrep questions and understand the correct reasons why the wrong options are wrong. Two reasons:
1) Anybody will want to see that 770/780 in the mock. My last mocks were GMATPrep 1 (retake) - 770 , GMATPrep 3 (retake) - 780 and GMATPrep 4 (fresh) - 770. In GMATPrep 4, I got some 3-4 known questions BTW. This happens in the 2 free tests as well. I've experienced it. (I did tell you I've a great memory). When I took the 4th mock twice, both the times I got the same CR question twice - once in the beginning and once towards the end. I remember the question now as well. Something like whales were first 60MN ago in fresh water and then in sea water. what weakens ... 8-)
2) You will get to know difficult questions. There is a huge difference between solving one by one difficult questions and solving them in the mock setup. GMATprep should be your back bone of your preparation and other resources you need to add things around it. Sure I'll stab GMAT prep repeatedly! :-D
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Hi KinjiGC. See my thoughts inline! :-D

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I didn't know I will get 760 when I screwed up my IR. I am more than satisfied with VA 44. I am sure I will not be to duplicate the score again. :( Yes, please do rethink. Try to strengthen other aspects of your application. I'd attended a MBA fair in Bangalore and Shaw O'Conor of Status prep spoke for an hour or something. I was hanging around for some time after his session. A guy had got 0 in IR and scored a 700+. Shawn told him not to retake and to not even mention why he got a low score on his optional essays. He said that since schools accept scores which are upto 5 years old, a good % of the applicants will not have an IR score and that schools don't look much at the IR score. Have you taken the GMAT before? Do you have a good IR score in that one? Even if you don't remember schools know that IR is a combo of the quant session and the verbal session. You've demonstrated you are good in both. I think you must dig a grave for gmat. But I'm no expert. Seek expert advice :)

I will suggest you to retake the GMATPrep questions and understand the correct reasons why the wrong options are wrong. Two reasons:
1) Anybody will want to see that 770/780 in the mock. My last mocks were GMATPrep 1 (retake) - 770 , GMATPrep 3 (retake) - 780 and GMATPrep 4 (fresh) - 770. In GMATPrep 4, I got some 3-4 known questions BTW. This happens in the 2 free tests as well. I've experienced it. (I did tell you I've a great memory). When I took the 4th mock twice, both the times I got the same CR question twice - once in the beginning and once towards the end. I remember the question now as well. Something like whales were first 60MN ago in fresh water and then in sea water. what weakens ... 8-)
2) You will get to know difficult questions. There is a huge difference between solving one by one difficult questions and solving them in the mock setup. GMATprep should be your back bone of your preparation and other resources you need to add things around it. Sure I'll stab GMAT prep repeatedly! :-D
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I must have missed you by a whisker in Bangalore MBA fair. I came a little late though. I agree with you.

All the best :)
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Ah KinjiGC that's very unfortunate. You must have left the passport remain there. You shouldn't have left the anxiety get the better of you especially when your time was about to get out. I can understand your pain. :oops: I'm out of words! :roll:

But KinjiGC I notice that you have posted a great score under your name here. :-D Are you sure you want to give a retake just for the sake of IR? Most programs are not considering the IR score much still. You might want to deeply reconsider your decision. Hope you wrote to your school and spoke to a few consultants!

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By the time I got up the IR time was over and the IR section got submitted. I think I got a heavy penalty. I got a 3 in IR. I was so frustrated that I decided to take GMAT again.

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I have the same question to KinjiGC. After achieving 99%le, thinking of GMAT again sounds different but a courageous step.

we didn't see the Debrief till now. I look forward to learn alot from your journey of 760 on GMAT :)

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Please let me know if I can answer your additional questions.[/quote]

Thanks for your answer. I am more interested in MGMAT's SC section. Was it on par with the real exam? I am having trouble improving my timing in SC. I encountered a lot of long SC sentences in MGMAT witch take me 2 minutes to solve. Have you encountered many long SC quesstions in the real exam?[/quote]

Actually GMAT prep question Pack 1 and GMAT prep exam pack 1 questions are exactly close to what will be asked in the exam. Normally the questions are not so lengthy in exam. CR was like GMAT prep.[/quote]

Hi again. Sorry to bother)) I need to clarify one point and I consider your answersworthy enough) I recently took gmat exam pack one and scored 30-40 points lower than my other mocks. But what shocked me were SC and CR questions. I felt that CR was much more difficult than gmat prep and remembered your words that CR will be like gmat prep in exam. So have you also noticed the same that I noticed?
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Actually GMAT prep question Pack 1 and GMAT prep exam pack 1 questions are exactly close to what will be asked in the exam. Normally the questions are not so lengthy in exam. CR was like GMAT prep.
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Hi again. Sorry to bother)) I need to clarify one point and I consider your answers-worthy enough) I recently took gmat exam pack one and scored 30-40 points lower than my other mocks. But what shocked me were SC and CR questions. I felt that CR was much more difficult than gmat prep and remembered your words that CR will be like gmat prep in exam. So have you also noticed the same that I noticed?
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GMAT preps are quit close to what you will see in real exam, but the difficulty of questions will vary. You will get from very easy questions to moderate difficulty. This exam is mad by Americans and when they take your 250$- They will make sure that you do not go empty hand home.

You will get around 13-14 questions in CR. 5-6 will be very easy, 5-6 moderate and 2-3 tough like GMAT prep and difficulty will rise as you Cross the 650, 700 level. The rise in difficulty level is gradual not sudden.

50% Your Preparation and 50% your belief that you are 100% eligible to run this marathon will take you through.

Manhattan SC is pretty lower in standard than actual GMAT. GMAT Prep is the Key.
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Honchos thanks dude. But it seems there happened to be a misunderstanding. Question about manhattan gmat was discussed before, I just quoted it. My question is specifically about gmat prep exam pack 1. I am good at gmat prep CR, but suffered a big loss in exam pack one - 5 mistakes to 1. That is why I wanted to be sure that maybe exam pack 1 is not the real reps. Thanks.
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Honchos thanks dude. But it seems there happened to be a misunderstanding. Question about Manhattan gmat was discussed before, I just quoted it. My question is specifically about gmat prep exam pack 1. I am good at gmat prep CR, but suffered a big loss in exam pack one - 5 mistakes to 1. That is why I wanted to be sure that maybe exam pack 1 is not the real reps. Thanks.
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Brother Exam Packs questions are 100% Real representative of actual GMAT. Thank You!
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Honchos thanks dude. But it seems there happened to be a misunderstanding. Question about manhattan gmat was discussed before, I just quoted it. My question is specifically about gmat prep exam pack 1. I am good at gmat prep CR, but suffered a big loss in exam pack one - 5 mistakes to 1. That is why I wanted to be sure that maybe exam pack 1 is not the real reps. Thanks.
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Well I am still waiting for 790 debrief... :)
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I am skeptical of your verbal results, this post sounds like it could be a marketing pitch for certain prep providers. To get verbal scores in that range requires zero mistakes and nearly perfect guessing. Unless you work for GMAC, there is no amount of studying that will teach you how to select the correct answer on some of the ridiculous/nonsensical verbal questions found in the GMAC prep software.

I would like to know how many questions you got wrong in verbal on each practice test. Did you exceed the time limit? Was there some sort of retake/memorization factor that explains the scores above V44?

I am a min-40 scorer in verbal, and frankly, there is no way to score above V42-V44 without blind luck. If you disagree, I would like to give you a list of BS questions and hear you explain how you went about solving them correctly in under 2 minutes.

Also, the Q51 on every practice test is a bit too impressive. Please explain this with some sort of intense math background. How many questions wrong on average?

Thank you.
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